I've got a few new packages from the UK FTP site today, but if you've been keeping up to date generally there shouldn't be many updates.
This update is mainly for install media, so people installing fresh don't have to download months of updates before configuring their system for the first time.
Currently looking for work after a few months off dealing with a family health issue - this is a long shot, but I thought I may as well give it a go!
Location: West Yorkshire (nr. Leeds), UK
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes, but within Northern England or Wales only for family reasons - no London/SE please.
Technologies: 3+ years experience with Linux system administration, primarily for a company providing internet radio streaming and audio hosting services. Experience with Python programming, as well as sysadmin on CentOS and Debian GNU/Linux distributions. Installation and configuration from scratch of Apache, PHP, MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Postfix and various other services
Server monitoring and maintenance: knowledge and experience in the use of Munin, Monit, Nagios etc.
Virtualisation experience - primarily OpenVZ, but with experience of implementing VMWare and KVM.
I am also looking for pointers on where to find entry-level technical writing work.
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I assume at this point that Opera have decided to quietly drop ongoing support for Linux.
There have been no updates to the Linux browser since the last one based on their old rendering engine - none of the Chromium/Blink based versions have made it across, even in beta.
From trying it on Windows, you're not missing much. It's mostly Chrome with a different skin as most of the features users liked on Opera < 12 are gone or have lost functionality. I still use Opera 12 for that reason.
Some of that functionality may return in the future, but they have said that things like bookmarks will never be like they were exactly on Opera < 12. If they had lived up to making it Opera 12, but with a Chromium Engine, it wouldn't be a problem, but as many long term users were afraid, someone at Opera is using it as an excuse to radically change what Opera is.
It's still relatively early (they're on rapid release, so 15, 16, 17, 18 don't mean what they used to) and Linux is a tiny sliver of a market for the Opera folks. Opera seems more focused on achieving commercial success across modern mobile devices (as opposed to the dying feature phone business) as well as desktop browsers. Dropping the old rendering engine helps them towards that goal (for good or ill). Delivering on a Linux build at this point probably doesn't.
They have a lot of development time to still put into the new Opera builds full stop. And making them work on the most popular platforms (with the most users and thus the most revenue from partnering) makes sense. Mac is about 1/12th the userbase of Windows. Linux is about 1/5th the market share of Mac. So, it would be the last in line to get work put into it.
yeah, I really miss this. I gave up Opera 12.16 and switched to FF recently. Looking forward to the new UI customization features in Australis, but there was so much more to Opera.
Maxthon is coming to Linux as well, so that'll be interesting
I'm hoping that they'll bring it back eventually, and that right now they're just focusing all their resources on getting the Win and Mac clients back up to feature-parity with 12.x, plus whatever else webkit brings to the mix.
They're basically in somewhat of a sprint right now, but /fingerscrossed that once they're out of it, they'll port it to Linux too. They're building on Chromium, which has a Linux version, so hopefully it's in the realm of possibility.
That said, will be interesting to see how long Opera 12.x lasts on Linux. I'm on Ubuntu 12.04 now and it's fine, next OS upgrade will be to 14.04 next Spring (or some other Debian distro if I decide to ditch Ubuntu). I wonder if Opera 12.x will work on that.
But in a small country like Denmark or Sweden, citizens there are also citizens of the EU and so can freely live and work in 27 countries with minimal bureaucratic hassle. Language barriers notwithstanding, it makes the EU a lot more like the wide-open market of the USA.
When I was in a long-distance relationship a couple of years ago and couldn't SMS internationally without re-mortgaging, we made heavy use of an Android app called Kik which also had this very useful feature. It had four indicators, if I remember correctly. "..." meant it was pending and you were having network/signal issues, "S" meant the Kik server had received it from your network, and the "D" and "R" were delivered and read.
I didn't know Google Hangouts had it. How does it display the read indicator? I find the interface a little... obtuse, to say the least!
I'm in radio and people frequently want to visit radio stations - they have this image of a fun, glamorous, star-studded workplace where anything goes.
They're usually pretty disappointed when they see the sales office, the programming office, a tatty kitchen and a tiny, basic studio in a broom cupboard.
Surely Google is the same - it's acquired a legendary status, but it's just... well, an office, like you go to work in every day. I'm sure there are more interesting places to visit in California.
As a Googler, yeah, basically this. I mean it's a better office complex than where ninety percent or more of people work, and I am thankful for that and suitably appreciative. But, it's not a theme park. The only genuinely fun thing for me there is the free arcade, and I suppose some people would say the sports fields.
Interesting. I've never been to MTV, but as a Googler who frequently volunteers to give tours for school/university groups in the NYC office, I'm thrilled by how wowed the visitors are at our office space.
Perhaps we Googlers start to take for granted some of the things that really are quite extraordinary - like the 150ft to food policy, the pieces of historical computing machinery that are kept around, the guest chefs that visit, the artworks that have been commissioned, the fact that we hold regular 'espresso office hours' and occasional mixology classes, and even the corporate essentials that Google really pulls off, like the Tech Stops, phone rooms, visitor badging system and video conferencing setup. Even though it's 'just an office space', it isn't like any other, and getting to see it as a potential future employee can be pretty motivational.
True. Also, I'm more wowed by offices that aren't MTV. The density of cool is a lot higher at e.g. Santa Monica or SF (and NYC, I presume, though I've never been).
There are the parts of the Googleplex that are kind of fun and sometimes serve as a weird tourist-y attraction (parts of the main quad, the infamous slide, various Google Earth machines, lots of other stuff), and the rest of the content of the buildings is definitely just boring offices and some cafes.
I've only been to the Googleplex like three times, but I think it's fun to go visit at least a few times. Past that, it just becomes a place with desks to work at and some free food.
And a domain from Guernsey, who are unlikely to mess around with things. It always baffles me when I see startups using things like Libyan (.ly) and even Syrian (.sy) domains to make some cutesy word.
This update is mainly for install media, so people installing fresh don't have to download months of updates before configuring their system for the first time.